Dr. Leigh Anne Howard, PhD
Professor of Communication Studies
Chair, Communication and Media Department
Contact
- lahoward@usi.edu
- Liberal Arts Center, 3083
- 812-464-1741
Bio
Dr. Leigh Anne Howard is Professor of Communication Studies and Chairperson of Department of Communication and Media at the University of Southern Indiana. She studies the intersection of performance, culture, and personal and social identity, as well as critical performance pedagogy. Her scholarship has appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Education, the American Behavioral Scientist, and the Journal of Intercultural Communication (formerly the World Communication Journal). Her most recent publications are the anthologies, Performativity, Cultural Construction and the Graphic Narrative, which she co-edited with Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw (Routledge, 2020) and Home and Away: Lived Experience in Performative Narrative (Routledge, 2022). She is also producer and writer with Dr. Dave Black of the documentary, Art for Science's Sake Stalking John James Audubon. Her teaching, research, and service has earned her numerous honors, including the John I. Sisco Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Southern States Communication Association, the Park Award for Excellence in Research by the World Communication Association, the Sydney and Sadelle Berger Faculty Community Service Award and H. Lee Cooper Core Curriculum Teaching Award, both by the University of Southern Indiana.
Education
- Ph.D. , Communication Studies with emphasis in Performance, Rhetoric, and Cultural Studies, Louisiana State University
- M.A., Communication with emphasis in Rhetoric and Organizational Culture, Western Kentucky University
- B.A., English and Theatre, Centre College of Kentucky
Courses
- CMST 101, Introduction to Public Speaking
- CMST 107, Interpersonal Communication
- CMST 203, Introduction to Performance Studies
- CMST 301, Communication Criticism and Analysis
- CMST 313, Advanced Performance Studies
- CMST 315, Readers Theatre
- CMST 317, Intercultural Communication
- CMST 386, American Cinema
- CMST 414, Oral Traditions
- CMST 420, Non-Profit Organizational Communication
- CMST 430, Political Communication
- COMM 602, Qualitative Research Methods in Communication
- COMM 610, Seminar in Intercultural Communicaiton
- COMM 616, Seminar in Personal and Cultural Identity
- COMM 624, Nonprofit and Association Communcaiton
- COMM 637, Critical Pedagogy and Communication